John Cottle Joins Spectroscopy's Editorial Advisory Board
Spectroscopy Magazine is pleased to announce the addition of John Cottle to its editorial advisory board.
Spectroscopy Magazine is pleased to announce the addition of John Cottle to its editorial advisory board.
Cottle is a professor of Earth Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. He received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in geology from the University of Otago in New Zealand. He earned his dPhil doctorate in earth science from The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His postdoctoral research was done at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham, in the United Kingdom.
Cottle’s research interests are in the field of continental tectonics and focus on combining structural analysis, geothermobarometry, and igneous and metamorphic petrology with high resolution U(-Th)-Pb isotope geochronology to identify and constrain the temporal and spatial scale of processes that serve to modify and/or produce new continental crust. Cottle is a leader in the development of novel laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) measurements and their application to tectonic questions.
The 2018 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy award was presented to Cottle by Spectroscopy magazine at the 2018 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in January.
Getting accurate IR spectra on monolayer of molecules
April 18th 2024Creating uniform and repeatable monolayers is incredibly important for both scientific pursuits as well as the manufacturing of products in semiconductor, biotechnology, and. other industries. However, measuring monolayers and functionalized surfaces directly is. difficult, and many rely on a variety of characterization techniques that when used together can provide some degree of confidence. By combining non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) and IR spectroscopy, IR PiFM provides sensitive and accurate analysis of sub-monolayer of molecules without the concern of tip-sample cross contamination. Dr. Sung Park, Molecular Vista, joined Spectroscopy to provide insights on how IR PiFM can acquire IR signature of monolayer films due to its unique implementation.
